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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






2. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






3. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






4. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






5. Multisensory Structured Language Education






6. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






7. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






8. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






9. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






10. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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11. Open syllable






12. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






13. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






14. State Board of Eduation






15. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






16. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






17. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






18. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






19. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






20. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






21. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






22. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






23. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






24. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






25. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






26. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






27. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






28. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






29. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






30. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






31. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






32. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






33. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






34. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






35. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






36. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






37. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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38. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






39. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






40. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






41. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






42. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






43. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






44. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






45. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






46. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






47. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






48. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






49. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






50. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading